Accessing Network Driver Functions directly from user application

Hi All,
Iam Ram, I need some help in device driver development.

I wrote a network device driver. I want to access the driver directly from my user application...

i.e. I am not interested in using socket api(socket,bind,connect etc) to get access to my network driver.

what I want is to access the Network driver functions so that i can pass the arguments which are expected for open,close,hard_transmit and all other net structure functions...

I am trying to provide my own api....so that they can be used in user applications.

is it possible to do it.....please help me out.....

Always Urs,
Ram.

Why not invent some ioctl() calls and communicate that way? That's how everything else in the universe works.

Or expose some custom device.

Although I really have to wonder why you would want such a thing.

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Originally Posted by CornedBee

Or expose some custom device.

Although I really have to wonder why you would want such a thing.

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thanx cornetBee for ur response.

can you be little bit clear and explain me more how to expose custom device....

I am doing some project in LDD .As part of it I need it.

Always Urs,
Ram

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Originally Posted by brewbuck

Why not invent some ioctl() calls and communicate that way? That's how everything else in the universe works.

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hi Brewbuck,
thanx for ur advice . but i want to tell u some thing.

In order to use ioctl calls I need a handler to the driver.

int ioctl(int fildes, int request, ... /* arg */);

The fildes argument is an open file descriptor that refers to a device.

This is obtained only by using the Socket api (socket open)for network drivers , which I dont want to use.
do u know any way to get the handle for the network driver.
if you know please tell me.

Always Urs,
Ram.

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Originally Posted by rkanna

This is obtained only by using the Socket api (socket open)for network drivers , which I dont want to use.
do u know any way to get the handle for the network driver.
if you know please tell me.

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Give it a major/minor device number and bind it to a name in /dev just like any other device? Then the app can get a handle by opening /dev/your_device.

In other words, do it how everybody else does it.

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Originally Posted by brewbuck

Give it a major/minor device number and bind it to a name in /dev just like any other device? Then the app can get a handle by opening /dev/your_device.

In other words, do it how everybody else does it.

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Hi brewbuck,
so u are asking me to convert char device drivers because they only have major and minor numbers.
which i can't do it.....

I want my driver to be Network driver and access it using my own functions api's.
can u suggest some other solution.....


Always Urs,
Ram